DLink DWL-650 woes

[steven ney]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 13:25 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> steven ney wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice!!!
> > I'm a tad embarrassed to say, but I don't seem to have iwconfig (nor
> > ifconfig) on my system. I have the GUI versions (system-config-networks)
> > but not the command line programmes
> 
> Please bottom post in the future.
> 
> Anyway, iwconfig and ifconfig are available to the root user only.  You
> have to be root to play with them.
> 
> Log in as root (or use sudo or su) and run "iwconfig -a".  See if the
> card is listed.  If it is, post the information shown and I'll help you
> walk through it.  If you'd rather take this off-list (to keep passwords,
> ESSIDs and such a bit more private), feel free to email me directly:
> 
> 	rstevens at vitalstream.com
> 
> > Thanks again
> 
> No problem.
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 11:13 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> >>steven ney wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello Everyone,
> >>>
> >>>I am trying to get a PCI/PCMCIA D-Link DWL 650 (rev J3) card to work on
> >>>both my Fedora C3 desktop (PIII, 700MHz, 512M) and my Thinkpad X20. Both
> >>>machines recognise the card/ chipset (Intersil Prism II) but after
> >>>configuring the wlan connection (as an adhoc network), I can't activate
> >>>the wlan network on the desktop. What is more, the error message flashes
> >>>past so quickly that I can only make out it is allegedly not getting the
> >>>MAC number its expecting. (As you probably can tell, I'm a noob) 
> >>>
> >>>I have looked through the fora and have not found anything on this card
> >>>and I would greatly appreciate any advice. 
> >>
> >>I used to have one of those.  Does iwconfig show the card?  If so,
> >>then the problem has to do with the /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file.
> >>There's no entry that matches the D-Link's MAC address.
> >>
> >>You can bypass that by using the iwconfig commands directly or by
> >>using system-config-network to set them up.
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> > 
> > 
> 
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Thanks for getting back to me so promptly!

This is very odd. I tried (as root) iwconfig -a but all I get is an
error message telling me that Bash can't find the command. I double
checked yum and rpm to see if I have the packages installed (net-
tools.i386, wireless-tools.i386 and NetworkManager.i386) and I seem to
have everything....

I suspect I am missing something very basic and obvious here.